Middle-Class “Chavs” From Working-Class Areas? Habitus, the Attainment Gap, and the Commodification of Higher Education Among Communication Students in England

The purpose of the article is to compare and contrast higher education and research among public relations and journalism students of middle-class and working-class origin. The paper applied Bourdieu’s theory of habitus to analyze prejudices against the working class, explores whether working-class...

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Main Authors: Martina Topić, Audra Diers-Lawson, Christian Goodman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Central States Communication Association 2022-10-01
Series:Journal of Communication Pedagogy
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jcp/vol6/iss1/8/